I got here an arm netbook. What I try to do is to boot the kernel from my desktop, where crossdev is set up. Don't worry too much about the kernel yet since it doesn't even try to boot it

What uboot does on boot, it checks on the inserted sdcard a folder called "script" and executes the scriptimage "scriptcmd" found there. Here I can give uboot some options and even boot another kernel.

The "Hello World" is to see at which step it hangs, because I just have a u-boot splash image on the screen. It writes Hello World in the top left corner of the screen. this shows me the script gets executed.

The problem is, that Android has this weird kernel code and no official support in the Linux kernel

Another really inconvenient thing is that normal Linux apps don't work in Android. It really is a different operating system which is not even POSIX, so effort to port apps is significantly more than just a recompile. Definitely not what I'd want for a netbook. Formerly-moblin soon-to-be-released "meego" seems more interesting for netbooks in my opinion.

If someone else has the problem on those WM8505 netbooks:
The default IP address is 10.1.8.250, and the default server IP is 10.1.8.37. As a work around you can create a tiny network with just those ip addresses which works fine then. dhcp or assigning another ip address doesn't work _________________Gentoo on Uptime Project - Larry is a cow